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Sentence Examples However, with the Shavuot approaching, we have a chance to reaccept the Torah properly. The Torah tells us listen, hear, and hearken on whichever level you are able. Like the Sadducees, the Karaites didn't recognize the authority of the Oral Torah and hence they read the Written Torah literally. With my rabbi teaching me Torah and how to ask the big questions, it became harder and harder to travel and feel good about it. That is why our Torah and tradition insist that the claim to prophecy not be based on miraculous evidence. Whether the making of Adam prior to creation of the soul lasted a microsecond or a million years, is not certain from the Torah. He was an educated man, who spoke ancient Hebrew, Aramaic, Yiddish, Torah and English. However, with the Shavuot approaching, we have a chance to reaccept the Torah properly, and we can accept the Mitzvot out of love. It is then that he officially begins his Torah education, and starts to wear a kippah and tzitzit. Torah has taught that the central concept of the month of Kislev is the illumination of darkness. Therefore, we place books of the Torah on top of those of the Prophets and Writings, and not vice versa. Its logic isn't drawn so much from the traditions of Judaism and its reliance on Torah, however. The same point was made by the famed 12th-century Talmudist and philosopher, in the Mishneh Torah. The Haftorah teaches that Torah will enlighten those who follow King Chiram's example. Still, one may never make use of a printed Torah, tefillin, or mezuzah for sacred purpose. At the end of Parshat Shoftim, the Torah discusses the rather unusual Halacha of Eglah Arufah. We had become more Jewishly involved, and had found the timeless wisdom of Torah to be an invaluable guide in many difficult situations. The designation of rabbi is given when one receives rabbinical ordination, earned by passing extensive examinations on the Torah and Talmud. I spent the time studying Torah with a rabbi in New York, and at some point decided to commit myself to observing the mitzvoth of the Torah. Giving charity is a positive mitzvah, a personal religious obligation no less than prayer or Torah study. Show More Sentences The bar mitzvah reads his Torah or Haftorah passage in shul and can then be counted as a man for purposes of a minyan. The Bar Mitzvah reads a portion of the Torah section and all of what is known as the Half Torah. It is a great honor to be given an aliyah when the Torah is read in the synagogue, and it is important to fulfill this mitzvah with dignity. Chanukah, in a very subtle manner, hints to the messianic era, when the light of Torah from Jerusalem will illuminate the world. With the mitzvah of counting the 49 days, known as Sefirat Ha'Omer, the Torah invites us on a journey into the human psyche, into the soul. As long as it stood, it was the supreme court and legislative body in all matters of Torah law. The Deuteronomic and Levitical codes were prophetically inspired reinterpretations of the Torah by the priestly writers. The woodwork of the Aron Hakodesh, the Holy Ark in which the Torah is stored, is original. It is the Divine origin of the Torah that makes its values permanent and unalterable, rendering it beyond human manipulation. The Torah teaches us that there is an eternal life, a wholly spiritual life, whose bliss is far greater than the human mind can imagine. The Torah recounts how in the second year after the Exodus, the Israelites arrived at the borders of the Promised Land. Hence he now tries to show how united the whole Torah is and attempts to relate it to life. They were keeping the ordinance that had been set before them in the Torah. It is therefore forbidden to add or subtract any commandments from the Torah. Interestingly, the Torah is unique among all ancient national literature in that it portrays its people in both victory and defeat. Without the Oral Torah we wouldn't know about the mezuzah and countless other ways of day-to-day Judaism. When the Torah laid down the principle of equal justice before the law, the rest of the world must have laughed. While mandated to heal, the Torah also commands him to zealously guard his own health. The Torah acknowledges this importance and encourages us to work diligently and to enjoy life in appropriate moderation. As a child, he spent many hours alone, memorizing the Torah and preparing to become a rabbi. Show More Sentences And this is why, of course, the Sages advise that to hear God one must study the Torah. These accounts came precisely as they were found in the Torah sent down to Moses and in the Gospel sent down to Jesus. But if you just have ecstatic experiences and the Torah is not stacked up on your heart, nothing happens. We gather around the table and Father reads as softly as he can out of the Torah and recites the Shabbat prayers. Recipes and Torah readings enables a re-enactment of a traditional Friday evening Shabbat feast. This is interpreted to mean that we should only seek to learn the Torah from a rabbi who resembles an angel in holiness and piety. After itemising the various forms of forbidden relationships the Torah states the following. This connects to the second holiday, Shavuot, on which Chazal say the Torah was given. On Shavuot, the Torah waits to be received by anyone who truly desires to receive it. It is the role of beit din to reinforce Torah values and to sanctify the name of Heaven in the process. Doesn't the Torah describe man as being the very last creature to appear in God's pantheon? Positive commandments include activities such as blowing the shofar on Rosh Hashana, the study of Torah, the wearing of the tallit, etc. This is the Mishnaic and Talmudic principle forbidding women to learn Torah. In the Torah, Tumah is clearly presented as negative, and the absence of impurity is not inherently positive, but neutral. One of the most poignant stories of the Torah tells us about Abraham, the first monotheist, and his relationship with God. When the Torah is taken out in the synagogue, the entire congregation must stand as long as it is being carried. My son will deliver a discourse on a Torah topic, and each of his grandfathers will say a few words. At the Synagogue bright photos and a clean design draw the very young reader into such rituals as Simchat Torah, Havdalah, and Shabbat. Augusta Levine tutors each child in learning how to cantillate the Torah and Haftarah with special emphasis upon the child's own Torah portion. Many boys also read the weekly Torah portion, having studied it in advance with a cantor or scholar experienced in reading the Torah. Show More Sentences On the cross, Jesus wears the phylacteries of a devout Jew and holds the Torah scroll in his right hand. The leader will invite all congregants who feel the Torah passage is speaking to this issue in their lives to join in that aliyah. By reading the last portion and the first portion of the Torah contiguously, we connect the miraculous wonders performed by Moses to Creation. This genderless God also represents a profound betrayal of the Torah narrative. To do so is to disaffirm the universal fatherhood of God and the unity of His Torah. This theme is reflected in the Torah, which forbids the mixing of distinct plant and animal species. The Torah comprises the first five books and contains a mixture of narratives and legal texts. For Torah study is the primary way to unplug spiritual blockage, and to remove barriers that prevent one from seeing the truth. Next came scores of Yeshiva students singing stirring songs about the greatness of the Torah. The Torah recounts that at the very outset of the human journey God throws Adam and Eve out of the Garden of Eden. This is why the Torah requires us to be charitable and hospitable to a slave. This same concept is repeated later when the Torah explains the procedure of sacrificing doves or pigeons. I extended my two-month leave of absence for another two months and went to study Torah in Jerusalem for the summer. Man is to be focussed on haShem and His Torah believing that His Ways effect what is Good for all His Creation. Throughout the Torah, Moshe davens to Hashem, and this week's Parsha provides one of the most celebrated examples of this. What, then, is the primary lesson of this section of the Torah? However, one may remove the organ as soon as he stops breathing, even though his heart is still beating, since the Torah considers life directly connected to breathing. They had been rigorously secular until one night when they attended a party and heard someone holding forth on the unlikely subject of hidden codes in the Torah. But if we ask to be treated as children, we must relate to God the way the Torah expects a child to relate to a parent, with respect and reverence. We could have spent our spare time studying the profundities of the Torah. Show More Sentences Some people also spend the first night of Shavuot studying the Torah. If you visit Jerusalem today, you will be moved by its beauty, its expanse, its bursting population, its thousands of Torah scholars and its scores of yeshivas. In 1943, Goldman responded to inquiries by Rabbi David Goldstein, then of Omaha, regarding the use of the triennial cycle for Torah readings at Anshe Emet. One of the most famous of his teachings consists of two Torah quotations that were staples of Judaism and echoes the emphasis of the rabbinic teachings of his era. The Torah was etched into stone and brought down a mountain. Years ago I met a young woman who had recently become Torah observant. There were moments when the expansive peace and receptivity of Shabbat alighted or the words of the siddur leapt into my mind, the words of Psalms or Torah. Most siddurim list six verses of the Torah that we should recite each day to remind us of who we are and to caution us against idolatry and lashon hara. Here the intention of the Prophet was not to follow the Torah but to implement from it what was conciliating with the Qur'an. i.e. the Punishment for adultery. This week's Kol Torah has been sponsored by the Brodsky Family to commemorate the yahrzeit of beloved mother and grandmother, scholar and teacher, Bernice Sherman Kramer. The Torah also instructs us to recite a blessing of thanks before partaking of any food or drink, or even when encountering phenomenon like thunder or a rainbow. When in doubt, consult a spiritual guide well versed in Torah. The Torah also tells us to be good to the poor, the widow, and the orphan. The Torah speaks of the evil prophet Bilaam praising the Israelites for dwelling arrangements that prevented unwanted intrusions and other invasions of privacy. If the senior rabbis had the will, Michaelson said, they could reinterpret the Torah and modify halakhic, or religious, law. All of their songs, they say, are inspired by Torah and hasidic philosophy, even the ones that sound a bit salacious. The shul is brightly lit and the men, in their white talliths, sing and dance holding the Torah rolls in their arms, with the children waving their colourful banners. The Talmud teaches that the Torah speaks in the language of man. While the Torah mentions tefillin, but gives no details, everyone throughout history has had the same black boxes, leather straps and identical parchments inside. Could this be the first hint that even Joshua is not completely confident that adherence to God's Torah is itself sufficient guarantee of Israelite success? Show More Sentences For one thing, there are prophecies about the messianic era in the Torah. It is these differences which distinguish Torah from the Prophets. In the portion of the Torah inscribed on the mezuzah, we read that one should converse in Torah while in the home, on the road, when one arises, and when one retires. Mr Steinberg also helped raise thousands of pounds for the Gateshead Talmudical College and the Shaarei Torah Manchester Talmudical College. In the 17th century Thomas Hobbes collected the current evidence to conclude outright that Moses could not have written the bulk of the Torah. I dare say that Judaism's prophets, specifically those mentioned in the five books of Moses in the Torah, never existed. On the one hand, Sirach defers to ancient Israel's sacred traditions by identifying Wisdom with Torah. Yet one must be careful not to come to the conclusion that Akiva used only esoteric ways of interpreting the Torah. Shall not all the letters of the Torah have little whiptails, to swim into our inward parts, there to implant themselves and grow? The laws contained in the Written Torah were given along with detailed explanations as how to apply and interpret them, the Oral Law. The Sadducees rejected the divine inspiration of the Prophets and the Writings, relying only on the Torah as divinely inspired. There are to be no mistakes in a Torah, which is carefully proofread after completion. They owned their very identity as a people to the Torah, with its interpretive commentaries, the Mishnah and the Midrash. He said that nature is God and that the Torah, the five books of Moses, weren't written by Moses but by many authors. He allowed a synagogue to be built in Rome, and he gave as a gift to this synagogue a scroll of the Torah known as the Severus Scroll. For centuries, the Torah appeared only as a written text transmitted in parallel with the oral tradition. To study the Written Torah and the Oral Torah in light of each other is thus also to study how to study the word of God. In the study of Torah, the sages formulated and followed various logical and hermeneutical principles. Cohen began going to the Thursday class after she had attended an introductory Torah class taught by Lev. In the Torah there are a few legislative references to the Canaanite slave, a gentile bought by an Israelite to serve in that capacity. Show More Sentences In the trading city of Livorno, those who had travelled back to Spain on business were not allowed to receive the honor of aliyot to the Torah. Over the course of a year, the whole Torah is read, with the cycle starting over in the autumn, on Simchat Torah. The remaining four books of the Torah tell the story of Moses, who lived hundreds of years after the patriarchs. True, the Maccabees were defending the God of Torah and Law. Devarim is part of the parashah, a weekly Torah portion read during prayer services. These have been further expounded by commentaries of various Torah scholars during the ages. In the text of the Torah, many words are left undefined and many procedures are mentioned without explanation or instructions. Maimonides methodically and artfully crafts a list of 613 commandments in a work that serves as a prolegomenon to the Mishneh Torah. The invertebrae are usually forbidden, the only exceptions being several types of locusts enumerated in the Torah. And then tomorrow evening comes Simchat Torah, the day we complete the yearly cycle of the weekly reading of the Torah, and begin all over again. An even more far-reaching impact of this ruling pertains to Simchat Torah celebrations. The core of festival and Shabbat prayer services is the public reading of the Torah, along with connected readings from the other books of the Tanakh, called Haftarah. Based on the Biblical injunction against cooking a kid in its mother's milk, this rule is mostly derived from the Oral Torah, the Talmud and Rabbinic law. Children learn to associate these tangible touch and feel experiences with holidays of the month of Tishrei such as Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Sukkot, and Simchat Torah. The Torah does not give specific reasons for most of the laws of kashrut. For example, people are forbidden from consuming the blood of birds and mammals because, according to the Torah, this is where animal souls are contained. Bolz bringing the 15th-century Mishneh Torah manuscript to my attention. After the Saturday morning service, a Kiddush lunch is offered for the entire congregation and a study session on the Torah portion of the week is taught is Spanish. As per the majority of the attendants, these very words of Gharib need a deep analysis to understand the soul and philosophy behind the stories in Torah. In other words, he argues that the truth and authority of the Torah should not be predicated on know-nothingism, ignorance or lack of scientific understanding. Show More Sentences These books, together with Nevi'im and Ketuvim are known as Torah Shebikhtav as opposed to the Oral Torah, which refers to the Mishnah and the Talmud. It says in the Torah that both gossip and murder cause irreparable damage. But when fellow congregant Al Ponce walked into the temple bearing a new Torah, a tribute four months in the making was revealed and the tears began to flow. The Torah does not require any particular foods to be eaten on Rosh Hashanah, but challah is one of the basics, shaped in a spiral round, she notes. A mezuza, a decorative case that contains a parchment inscribed with Hebrew verses from the Torah, will be placed in the doorway of each patient room. However, the 1642 flood caused by Kaifeng's Ming governor devastated the community, which lost five of its twelve families, its synagogue, and most of its Torah. Hirsch held the opinion that Judaism demands an application of Torah thought to the entire realm of human experience, including the secular disciplines. It is a truth universally acknowledged, King seems to want to say, that a single mentch in possession of Torah knowledge must be in want of a wife. Tradition holds that the Torah was handed down to Moses on Mount Sinai. According to rabbinic tradition, there are 613 commandments in the Torah. Examples from Classical Literature It is of value only when used in defence of the Torah and in behalf of God and the truth. He accepted the Torah as the guide of his own life and of that of his nation. Even the child's unborn soul had been present and accepted the yoke of the Torah. The hazan opened the Pentateuch and the parnas of the congregation was called to the Torah. It thus has a wide distribution in the Hebrew Scriptures, being used in the Torah, the Prophets and the Writings. The recording of the oral law in the Mishnah was unsuccessfully opposed by the Sadducees as desecrating the Torah. Chate'u Yisrael as a theological account explains that in the period of neglect and syncretism the Torah of Moses became blemished and maculated. Once on the holiday of Simhat Torah, the disciples of the Baal Shem Toy were at his home dancing and drinking. He favored women's minyans and women carrying the torah scrolls on the holiday of Simchat Torah. Such a person with such comments is a renegade, belligerent and a corruptor on earth and based on the Torah instructions he should be stoned to death. Find more words! 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